This is an analysis of the poem The White Goddess that begins with:
All saints revile her, and all sober men
Ruled by the God Apollo's golden mean -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXX ccddXXee XbbbeXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101011101 1101010101 010111010 01010100010 11010011101 100001110 01010101 0111110101 1001100101 01111101110 01010001010 11111111010 1101010101 0111010011 01001001101 010101010 11001110110 11110100010 1001001101 0010011000 10110011010 1001011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, to, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, whose are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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